MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE CHANDRAPUR DISTRICT

Most of the economical Mineral Deposits of the District belongs to the unclassified crystalline formation and the Dharwarian meta sediments of the Archean age expecting lime stones , coal and clays . The limestone belongs to the Cuddpah age and coal and clays are extracted from the lower Gondwana formation .

Coal

Coalfields of the Chanda District are grouped as Wardha Valley coal fields which belong geologically to Barakar Stages of Damuda Series of the Gondawana system.

Chanda Coalfields : The field is located just near Chandrapur town and there are at present three working Collieries  common namely Rayatwari , Hindustan Lal peth and Mahakali .

Ghugus Telwasa  : The area consist of the two parts . the Northern and Southern part extends Nilgal to Ghugus and further south up to Painganga river.

Ballarpur : This field is continuation of the Chanda field to the south .

Rajura Sasthi : the field is lies just on the south west bank of the Wardha river opposite Ballarpur.

 Warora : The fields forms the Northern Part of the Wardha Valley coal field  , and the working Warora Colliery where west of Nagpur Chandrapur Road. Between Warora and Ekarjuna .

  Majri :    The reserves in the area under lease have been estimated to the order of 50 millions tones of 2^nd grade coal .

 Bandear : In the terrain North of Warora Colliery a few isolated patches of lower Gondwana rocks are found around the village Bandear . The cut crops are small and muej of the terrain is covered by thick mental of soil .

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Iron Ore : Iron Ore

Iron ore the second most abundant metal in the earths crust is perhaps no responsible for any other element  .

In Chandrapur District , many iron ore bodies has been revealed by the directorate of Geology and Mining in Bramhapuri , Warora Tahsils. The ore is associated with the formation of iron . Iron ore series belonging to Dharwarian age period of archean age .

The iron ore occurs as isolated bodies or lenses over ferruginous phyllite on Banded Hamitite Quartzite and are suppose to have been formed by the leaching Celica and further reconsolidation of the remaining iron ore . Some deposits are of replacement origin .

Hematite is the principle mineral in the most of the ore bodies which occurs in different forms such as massive laminated or porous . The important iron ore occurrence are reported at the following places.

    Asola Deposit , Lohara , Pimplegaon , Birsi , Devalgaon, Suraj Garh Deposits .

Lime stones : The limestone deposit are found to occur in villages of Kondhala , Purkepar , Kalamgavan , Mendha , and Nilgay of Warora Tahsils and at Sangodha in Rajura Tahsil .

Clays : clay deposits are reported in Chandrapur District at Number of places like Bhadrawati and Kothari .

Copper : A brief mention of old abandon working for copper at Thanevasana in Chandrapur Tahsil .

 Barite : A barite is found to occur in Phutan near Thanevasana on Chandrapur Mul road.

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